I'm proud of my team. We played really hard.

This expansion reflects the substantial growth The Midland Company has experienced in recent years. The new building and the new training opportunities it represents will help keep us at the forefront of the industry.

It's causing problems. It causing the system to overloaded, especially on a busy weekend.

Even after absorbing higher than normal catastrophe losses during the quarter, we were able to post an exceptional 91.2 percent property and casualty combined ratio. This compares to a combined ratio of 89 percent in the fourth quarter of 2004.

These results extend our string of record first-quarter earnings to four years.

We haven't decided where to hang this yet, but we are going to hang it out front where people can see it. It's not going to be hung in council chambers and not be seen.

I thought it was a hard-fought game ? real back-and-forth with a lot of momentum shifts. What else could you ask for in a lacrosse game?

That's hard for us to swallow. It's going to be hard for them to swallow. At the same time, we all live in Wake County. Something's got to give.